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  2. Star Wars: The Old Republic - Wikipedia

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    Payment is by credit card or time card. The free-to-play version integrates most of the primary features in the game, but has several restrictions, such as credit limits and reduced leveling speed. After launch, the game's subscribers rose to 1.7 million by February 2012. [76] By May 2012, those numbers fell to 1.3 million. [77]

  3. The Free Republic: Star Wars MMO considers free-to-play model

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    It looks like EA and its leading role-playing game studio, BioWare, might give in to the free-to-play (F2P) shift after all with their recent big-budget massively multiplayer online game (MMO ...

  4. Social Space: Throw Facebook games and MMOs in the blender ...

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    Not even a year later, and developer Bioware (and EA) has opted to turn the ailing game into a a free-to-play Take a look at Star Wars: The Old Republic, one of only a few modern MMOs to release ...

  5. Free-to-play - Wikipedia

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    Free-to-play's model is sometimes derisively referred to as free-to-start due to not being entirely free. [1] Free-to-play games have also been widely criticized as "pay-to-win"—that is, that players can generally pay to obtain competitive or power advantages over other players. There are several kinds of free-to-play business models.

  6. Freemium - Wikipedia

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    In the freemium business model, business tiers start with a "free" tier. Freemium, a portmanteau of the words "free" and "premium", is a pricing strategy by which a basic product or service is provided free of charge, but money (a premium) is charged for additional features, services, or virtual (online) or physical (offline) goods that expand the functionality of the free version of the software.

  7. Common stock vs. preferred stock: What’s the difference? - AOL

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    Here are the key differences between common and preferred stock. Common stock vs. preferred stock: How they compare. Not all stock is created equal. Common stock and preferred stock are the two ...

  8. Buy-to-play - Wikipedia

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    Pay-to-play (P2P) is a model in which a subscription payment is required on an ongoing basis, in order to use a service. When comparing the three revenue models, the free-to-play and buy-to-play model is slowly rising in popularity as the pay-to-play model is decreasing in relative popularity.

  9. Massively multiplayer online game - Wikipedia

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    A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG or more commonly MMO) is an online video game with a large number of players to interact in the same online game world. [1] MMOs usually feature a huge, persistent open world, although there are games that differ.